Friday, April 23, 2010

Foldio


Christian Lane is looking to recieve £80,000 for 15% of his company. Foldio's curve your documents without a crease, keeping your artwork perfectly flat enabling you to transport documents with ease.
He was offered £80,000 for 35% from Theo Paphitis.
Peter Jones offered something else, which I didn't understand.
The first guy stayed with his offer. He accepts Theo's offer, and deinies Peter.
Foldio's are now being sold in over 500 stores in the UK and online.

Element Bars


12 bars to a thousand of bars per day, and they're seeling thousand of bars per week.
Jonathan Miller. The company started in August 2008, and has doubled their sales in the last 6 months. They have $50,000 in sales. He believe that the execution is more important. He has put $50,000 of his own money. He's willing to give up 15% of the busniess for 150K.
He was given 2 options. One he could give one guy 75% of the company and he'll get his 150K OR he could give the other guy 100% of the company and gget his 150K, and he'll have a 4% royalty for the rest of his life.
Went for a licensing agreement giving the one guy %30, with a %4 royalty for the rest of his life and 150K.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Ray Kroc

They developed in innovative delivery system, and makes sure everyone gets good value. He was born in Chicago in 1902 and as a child he seemed more ambitious than others. He started working in a grocery store, and viewed the world as one big place to sell too. He started selling Dixie brand paper cups. He signed a contract with Walgreens and became the star salesman of his company where he worked for 16 years. In 1939, he seeked interest in a five spindled milkshake machine called the multi mixer and was making over $25,000/year. In 1954 he met Dick and Mac (Richard and Maurice) Mcdonald. In 1958 - 1961 he opened up 200 McDonalds but wasn't happy with the brother's hesitation in opening more. In 1961, Ray bought the company from the brothers and payed them 2.7 million dollars. In time he drove the McDonald's real business into the ground Ray Croc suffered from a number of strokes and died from heart failure in 1998 at 81 years of age. The Golden Arches is more known than the cross.

Joan Kroc, Ray Kroc's wife, is the 208th wealthiest person in the world.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Eminent Editing

I would start a business in online editing because I love reading what other people write, and correcting it. I would have to start off by purchasing a web hosting through FatCow. It will cost me about $44/year for the web hosting. There are also a few privacy options I would pay for. Domain privacy, costing me 8.99/year, Protecting my site from and lost or damaged files will cost 12.95/year. Securing and protecting my website from viruses, fraud, etc. will cost 12.95/year. Adding my site to their directory will cost $1/month and raising my search engine rankings will cost $9.95/year. A final price of $100.84/year. I will also need to make sure that I have Internet which will cost about $40/month. I would then advertise my business on facebook, or on other websites which would cost me about $100/month. A plus to signing up with FatCow is they give me $50 worth of advertising on Facebook, and $50 towards advertising my site on Google advertising network.

Friday, April 9, 2010

Script

Hello, my name is Stephanie. I'm here representing Sardis Secondary and the Entrepreneurship 12 class. We are currently selling tickets to raise money for our Grad Legacy fund, which will then go towards scholarships, bursaries and helping out grads pay for the graduation ceremony and dinner/dance, and I was wondering if you would like to buy One ticket for $1? The tickets you buy will be put into a draw, where you could win a [car].

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

BC's Top 55



Nintendo of Canada Ltd.
- helps employees save for retirement with an RSP plan
- paid vacation allowance, and five paid days off during the Christmas season
- offers maternity leave top-up
- free membership to a fitness facility, and yoga classes

Next Level Games Inc.
- parental leave top-up for new and adoptive mothers
- three week vacation, five paid personal days, and five paid time off during the Christmas season
- profit-sharing and share purchase plans
- subsidized fitness club memberships, free ski passes to Cypress Mountain
- flexible work hours

HSBC Bank Canada
- up to $2,000 support of adoptive parents
- up to $9,000/year of tuition subsidies
- three weeks paid vacation during first year, increases to four weeks after third year
- up to $3,000 in referral bonuses

Simon Fraser University
- parental top-up for new mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents
- on site daycare
- free memberships to state-of-the-art fitness facility
- supplies a generous tuition subsidy.
- employee health benefits extending after retirement

University of British Columbia
- supports new mothers with top-up benefits
- on site daycare
- free use of the fitness center
- flexible hours
- four weeks of paid vacation time, paid days-off during Christmas season

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Dave Thomas (1932-2002)


Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy's. He was adopted when he was 6 months old, and when he was 5 his adoptive mother passed away. by the time he was a 15, he already had a full-time job, had quit school, and was living on his own. At 18, he joined the army and went to cooking school, yet failed. He was married within a year of meeting his wife, and had 4 children in 6 years. It was hard for him to get by at first, because he was only making $125 a week. He was a veteran of the food business at the age of 20, and he was helped to make signs and buckets for KFC. The problem was that he wasn't having fun because he believed, since childhood, that work would solve all of his problems. The first Wendy's opened in the November of 1969. He earned his GED in 1993 at Coconut Creek High School. In 2002 he died from liver cancer, and had more than 6,000 Wendy's restaurants operating in North America.